lots of reasons for this - obviously - but no small part has been the failure of recent TAOM’s to obtain name booking in time to advertise prior to the increase in rates. TAOM has become a convention where the people who show up are the ones who show up regardless of who is performing. Back in the day this brought in families - with today’s prices fewer are willing to spend several hundred dollars just to hang out.

John Cornelius: Two Time FISM winner Three Time IBM Originality Award winner Inventor of Fickle Nickel, Marked, FISM Flash, Thought Transmitter, Coin that Falls Up,.... Doug Henning opened his NBC Magic Special with the Vanishing Nickel(Fickle Nickel)